Zoints Anonymous Posting - Improved privacy for members
 

Have you ever wanted to discuss something on a forum but never posted because you didn't want people to know it was you? To solve this problem, we created an anonymous posting hack.

Via the admin control panel, you can easily choose which forum(s) allows for anonymous posting.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png


For anonymous enabled forums, your members then get this handly little checkbox (unchecked by default) when making a new thread or post.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png


If they check the box, then their post is created under the account you setup and assign as the anonymous poster. I personally created an "anonymous" username, but you can create whatever you want.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png


As forum owners, we all know that a few members will choose to screw around with this feature. Therefore we created an easy means to identify who created an anonymous thread/post should the need arise. Please be ethical and tell your members you can see who posted anonymously should the need arise. You can check the log by going here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png


And the log looks something like this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png

Official support for this modification will take place at http://network.zoints.com in this forum.


Enjoy, click install, check out Zoints' other hacks, have a great day, and all that happy jive.

We always used this avatar for our anonymous account. You're welcome to use it if so desire:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2006/10/3.png

I had a similar hack with 3.07. Yours is better. It simply misses an option: On the front end, in forum listing, there should be a little sign that indicates anonymous posting possible in that forum.

If people are shy, they will not even go in newreply, so how would they know they can post anonyously?

Wouldn't adding "Anonymous Posting Enabled" to the forum description do the job? If not, can you provide a mockup of exactly what you mean? Thanks :)

Manually adding anonymous posting allowed would do the job, but is not dynamic. Would have to do so for every allowed forum, then remove it when you disable it.

The way I did it in 3.07 was:

1-Automatically <span style="float:right;"> a small icon with title of forum.

2-I had a set of status icon for that. When there was a new post made anonymously it would display.

Good point :) That would get very annoying very quickly.

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll see what we can come up with and add it to the next build.

Searched for it since a long Time. Great Hack !!! :)

Hi

Look at the highlighted code, please. What means the condition? If user == anonymous then checkox is checked? If yes, then the condition doesn't work for me. How can i test this, please?

If i check the box and use the preview the checkbox becomes unchecked


Regards, Stoebi

Shit ..... it conflicts with Doubleposting Preventing......

Demo :

http://www.politikstube.de/forum/sho...postcount=1147

redlabour i am using the prevent mod too and i am going to install this hack tonight but your post make me warn. can you describe the problem more? i cant understand anthing in the demo :/